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Cecelia Traugh
cecelia.traugh@liu.edu
(718) 488 - 1088
Cecelia Traugh is dean of the School of Education and the director of
its Center for Urban Educators (CUE). Throughout her career, she has combined
her roles as a teacher, administrator and researcher in pursuit of the kind
of education that grows out of a valuing of the capacities of children, parents
and teachers. She has worked collaboratively with parents, teachers and administrators
to make classrooms and schools more supportive of children's and teachers'
growth, thinking and learning.
Some of Traugh's areas of concentration are descriptive school-based inquiry,
curriculum development and evaluation, including qualitative evaluation, and
the preparation of teachers for urban schools. Her current work in schools
includes school-wide inquiry groups in small schools across Manhattan and Brooklyn.
These inquiry groups use the Descriptive Processes developed at the Prospect
Center in North Bennington, Vermont to investigate issues important to the
inclusive education of all children and to the ongoing development of the schools
themselves.
Traugh began her career in education teaching history in a southern California
high school. While earning her Ph.D. from the University of California (1972),
she taught in the Yolo County Juvenile Hall in Woodland, California. Her first
university position was as an assistant professor at Wichita State University,
Kansas, where she directed the Multi-Institutional Teacher Education Center,
a statewide program offering an urban experience to potential teachers.
In 1979 Traugh became the associate dean of the Center for Teaching and Learning
at the University of North Dakota. Working with Dean Vito Perrone, she became
a member of the North Dakota Study Group on Evaluation and participated in
programs that educated Native American teachers for reservation schools and
in statewide studies of high schools and of adolescent work.
In 1986 Traugh became director of the Middle School, Friends Select School,
in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During the seven years she held this position,
she taught seventh-grade English, eighth-grade humanities, and a yearlong course
for sixth graders in the observation and description of a tree. In addition,
she also taught graduate courses in research methodology at the University
of Pennsylvania.
In 1993, Traugh became the director of research and evaluation at the Institute
for Literacy Studies at Lehman College at the City University of New York.
There she began her school-based inquiry groups in schools in Manhattan and
the Bronx, developed an Institute-wide inquiry into the work of professional
development, and supported the writing of a monograph series about the work
of teachers teaching teachers in New York City schools.
Since 1984 Traugh has been associated with the Prospect Center in North Bennington,
Vermont. The Prospect Center is a wide-ranging network of people interested
in schools, learning and works. It is committed to observation and description
as the ground for teaching and inquiry and includes an archive comprising longitudinal
collections of the art, writing and other works by individual children that
informs Prospect's view of children's growth over time. Traugh's association
with Prospect Center includes being an archive scholar (1984-1986), the president
of the board of trustees for ten years, and the director of the Summer Institute
for Descriptive Inquiry.
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